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Assessment as an Emotional Practice: Emotional Challenges Faced by L2 Teachers Within Assessment
(Springer International Publishing, 2018)Assessment and evaluation create many complex emotions (e.g., anxiety, concern, pride) for all teachers. High-consequence assessments engender stronger and more negative emotions. Alongside all educators, L2 teachers share ...
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Assessment of attention in school children: Teachers' ratings related to tests of attention
(2002)The paper provides (1) a teacher-administered rating instrument for inattention without confounding the rating with hyperactivity and conduct disorder, and (2) evidence that the ratings correlate with the scores obtained ...
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Assessment of executive functioning in brain injury: Collaboration between speech-language pathology and neuropsychology for an integrative neuropsychological perspective
(2012)Background: Executive functioning (EF) deficits are common sequelae of traumatic brain injury (TBI). These deficits extend beyond the acute stages of recovery and pose a significant challenge in rehabilitation efforts. ...
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Assessment of traumatic brain injury chronic effects: uncinate fasciculus diffusion tensor metrics and correlation with visual and verbal episodic memory performance
(2018)OBJECTIVE: To investigate the hypothesis that the episodic visual and verbal memory impairment associated with chronic moderate to severe traumatic brain injury is related to changes in the diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) ...
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Associating Parental to Child Psychological Symptoms: Investigating a Transactional Model of Development
(2013)The current study investigated the longitudinal transactional association among paternal and maternal depressive symptoms and child internalizing and externalizing difficulties. Data were collected on preschool- to ...
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Association between the probability of autism spectrum disorder and normative sex-related phenotypic diversity in brain structure
(2017)IMPORTANCE Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is 2 to 5 times more common in male individuals than in female individuals. While the male preponderant prevalence of ASD might partially be explained by sex differences in clinical ...
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The association of community violence exposure with middle-school achievement: A prospective study
(2004)This study investigated the long-term effects of exposure to community violence on academic achievement and feelings of safety in school among a large sample of urban middle-school students (N = 759). It also considered ...
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Associations Between Self-Reported Sensory Impairment and Risk of Cognitive Decline and Impairment in the Health and Retirement Study Cohort
(2020)OBJECTIVES: We aimed to determine whether self-assessed single (hearing or visual) and dual sensory (hearing and visual) impairments are associated with cognitive decline and incident possible cognitive impairment, no ...
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Asymmetries in peer interaction: The effect of social representations of gender and knowledge asymmetry on children's cognitive development
(2012)This study examines the role of social representations of gender and knowledge as sources of asymmetry on the features of children's interactions as well as on their cognitive development. The research was carried through ...
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Attachment style and mentoring relationships in adolescence
(2008)This study examined the relationship between adolescents' attachment style and their decision to enter mentoring relationships. The participants were 569 Greek Cypriot high school students. It was found that adolescents ...
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Attachment to Parents and Peers as a Parameter of Bullying and Victimization
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)The purpose of the present study was threefold. First, we tried to investigate whether the quality of attachment with parents and peers predicts bullying and victimization. Second, we also attempted a moderation analysis ...
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Atypical neural self-representation in autism
(2010)The 'self' is a complex multidimensional construct deeply embedded and in many ways defined by our relations with the social world. Individuals with autism are impaired in both self-referential and other-referential social ...
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Auditory temporal processing and dyslexia in an orthographically consistent language
(2010)We examined two hypotheses relating auditory processing to dyslexia in Greek, an orthographically consistent language. Study I examined the “P-center” or “beat detection” hypothesis (Goswami et al., 2002) in a sample of ...
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Augmenting intelligence: Developmental limits to learning-based cognitive change
(2016)We investigated if learning relational reasoning in mathematics generalizes to other domains and general intelligence, including speed, attention control, and working memory. A total of 118 10-year olds were involved, ...
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Autism
(2014)Autism is a set of heterogeneous neurodevelopmental conditions, characterised by early-onset difficulties in social communication and unusually restricted, repetitive behaviour and interests. The worldwide population ...
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Autism attenuates sex differences in brain structure: A combined voxel-based morphometry and diffusion tensor imaging study
(2012)BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: It has been proposed that autism spectrums condition may represent a form of extreme male brain (EMB), a notion supported by psychometric, behavioral, and endocrine evidence. Yet, limited data are ...
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Beer, wine, and social anxiety: Testing the "self-medication hypothesis" in the US and Cyprus
(2011)The social anxiety literature often cites the self-medication hypothesis (SMH) to explain why socially phobic clients often present with alcohol problems. Based on some earlier hints that social anxiety and drinking might ...
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A behavioral comparison of male and female adults with high functioning autism spectrum conditions
(2011)Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) affect more males than females in the general population. However, within ASC it is unclear if there are phenotypic sex differences. Testing for similarities and differences between the ...
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Behavioral methods in the treatment of individuals suffering from learning disabilities and related neuropsychological problems.
(Parisianou Publications, 2011)